RP
Translingual
Symbol
RP
- (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Philippines.
- Synonyms: PH (for general use), PI (1949 Convention)
Usage notes
This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for the Philippines is PH.
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ) piː/
Noun
RP (countable and uncountable, plural RPs)
- (linguistics) Initialism of Received Pronunciation.
- 2008, “RIP RP”, in The Boy Bands Have Won, performed by Chumbawamba:
- Goodbye RP / Let our words go free / Coo and howl / Lay flat your vowels
- (video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.
- (pathology) Initialism of retinitis pigmentosa.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of roleplay.
- (medicine) Initialism of rotationplasty.
- (phyisics) Initialism of radiation pressure.
- (analytical chemistry) Initialism of reverse-phase.
Proper noun
RP
- Initialism of Rhineland-Palatinate, a federal state of Germany.
- Initialism of Republic of Poland.
- (Philippines) Initialism of Republic of the Philippines (former two-letter country code).
Verb
RP (third-person singular simple present RPs, present participle RPing or RP'ing, simple past and past participle RPed or RP'd)
- (transitive, intransitive) To roleplay.
- 2015 March 23, Andrew Smith, “Start your R&R with some D&D”, in The Spokesman-Review:
- I hope you enjoyed this snapshot of why D&D is a great intro into RP'ing. Next week, get your katanas, miniguns, Bulldog-Step vans, and Earth Spirits out. We’re talking Shadowrun. See you then!
Esperanto
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛrˈpɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛrpɛ
- Syllabification: R‧P
Turkish
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